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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
Lifestyle
Cairo - Hazem Badr

Scientists Create New Device to Improve Deep Sleep

A passenger sleeps on a bus operated by a Hong Kong travel agency offering a five-hour "quiet bus" tour marketed as a "route to nowhere" for travel-craving and restless residents to snooze on board in Hong Kong, Nov. 14, 2021. (AFP Photo)

Researchers have shown that the brain waves characterizing deep sleep, so-called slow waves, can be improved by playing precisely timed sounds through earphones while sleeping. While this works well in the sleep laboratory under controlled conditions, there has thus far been no at home solution.

To address this problem, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a device named SleepLoop that can be used at home and aims to promote deep sleep through auditory brain stimulation.

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